Explain How to Engage in Good Thinking and Assessment Practices

question 6

Essay

Explain how to engage in good thinking and assessment practices that are more likely to lead to a correct diagnosis of a mental disorder, including how to avoid thinking errors that may occur during the assessment phase.

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Definitions:

Blindsight

A phenomenon where individuals with damage to the primary visual cortex can respond to visual stimuli without consciously experiencing sight.

Parallel Processing

The ability of the brain to simultaneously process incoming stimuli of differing quality, a part of cognitive function that enables efficient multitasking.

Cocktail Party Effect

This describes the human ability to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, as when listening to a single conversation in a crowded room.

Change Blindness

A perceptual phenomenon where a change in a visual stimulus goes unnoticed by the observer.